Data processing in FPGA-based systems

Abstract

More than 50% of FPGA market is in the scope of communication and information. Data processing is a very broad area that is important for numerous computations, networking, embedded systems, Internet-based applications, etc. Many problems in this area are computationally intensive and thus, they require parallelization and acceleration based on new technologies. FPGAs can be seen as a very attractive platform permitting application-specific software and problem-targeted hardware to be combined on a single configurable microchip. The tutorial is dedicated to hardware-oriented data processing algorithms with emphasis on parallelism and pipelining. FPGA-targeted design flow is based on the rational use of configurable logic blocks/logic elements and embedded components (DSP slices and block RAMs). Particular examples, potential practical applications, experiments and comparisons will be demonstrated.